Re: black berries
[Re: sako22]
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04/01/20 02:08 PM
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Bruce T
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Do any of you on here raise blackberries? What varieties do you raise and like the best? I am looking to raise some and want a variety that is winter hardy with good flavor that doesn't need supported. thanks for any and all replies X2.Been trying for years with nothing making it thru the winter.Thought I had finally found some last year until they grew berries and turned out to be raspberries instead of blackberries
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Re: black berries
[Re: sako22]
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04/01/20 02:19 PM
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I'll tell you what I know. There are a lot of newer thornless varieties out there and they have been bred to be very productive, very large and to produce early to late. But from what I have tried the flavor is a bit insipid.
For good flavor I like some of the older varieties. The "Marion" is a great flavored blackberry and my favorite. Boysens and Logans are also great in jams and jellies. All these are varieties that need trellising.
Kentucky should be fine for growing blackberries but northern Maine I think would require lots of effort to get them through the winter. They don't like to get down below zero too much, it burns the flowering buds.
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Re: black berries
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04/01/20 03:07 PM
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The Possum Man
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Yall talking about planting briars? why would anyone want to do that. Dang things grow eveyrwhere here. Ditches, fields, and especially right exactly where a deer will run if you dont drop him. My wife has been wanting to plant the stupid things...she already has some growing in her flower bed..wild. They are great to drive around in the woods and pick some. Just dont want to mow around them in the yard.
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Re: black berries
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04/01/20 03:29 PM
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I have a few acres of Himalayan blackberries, please feel free to come dig them up and transplant them. I certify my himalayas as organic and pick them for my farmers market stand. Far more flavor than most domestics.
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Re: black berries
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04/01/20 03:56 PM
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If you can't beat 'em you join them. We get them starting everywhere and since we're certified organic I can't spray them. Murder to get out of the vineyard and blueberries once they get started.
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Re: black berries
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04/01/20 04:39 PM
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I have a few acres of Himalayan blackberries, please feel free to come dig them up and transplant them. I certify my himalayas as organic and pick them for my farmers market stand. Far more flavor than most domestics. My brother and his family live near Chehalis, Washington. The Himalayan blackberries are all over the place near him. I really like the flavor. The wild blackberries on my farm and neiboring farms taste bad. They have very little sugar content. The wild black raspberries on my farm taste great. I just finished the last of the black raspberry syrup we made. A friend of mine gave me a yellow raspberry bush and another type. Both plants made it through the Winter and are budding out now. I have planted a large red raspberry and a thornless blackberry in the past. The red raspberries had tremendous fungus problems. The thornless blackberries died almost immediately. I am cloning my elderberry bush a whole lot this Spring. I want to clone my catawba grapes too. I would love to get more varieties of berries. Keith
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Re: black berries
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04/01/20 05:19 PM
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Yall talking about planting briars? why would anyone want to do that. Dang things grow eveyrwhere here. Ditches, fields, and especially right exactly where a deer will run if you dont drop him. My wife has been wanting to plant the stupid things...she already has some growing in her flower bed..wild. They are great to drive around in the woods and pick some. Just dont want to mow around them in the yard. You're your supposed to plant more so you dont have to mow.
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